Variables in a dictionary

Questions
1

Often i like to structure different patterns/parts of a longer piece in a dictionary like this:

(
part1: Pbind(...),
part2: Pbind(...),
etc
)

Now, if i want to have a shared variable/key, local to this dictionary’s environment; how do i do that?
This doesn’t work obviously:

(
sharedVar: [0, 3, 5, 7],
part1: Pbind(\degree, ~sharedVar),
part2: Pbind(\degree, ~sharedVar)
);

I tried some of the examples in the Environment helpfile but today (and possibly tomorrow as well) i’m to stupid to understand how to do this.

2

no doubt there are better, more idiomatic ways, but here is one

(
~pieceDict = (
	sharedVar: [0, 3, 5, 7],
	part1: Pbind(\degree, Pfunc{~pieceDict[\sharedVar]}),
	part2: Pbind(\degree, Pfunc{~pieceDict[\sharedVar]})
)
)


p = ~pieceDict[\part1].play


~pieceDict[\sharedVar] = (7..11)
~pieceDict[\sharedVar] = [0, 2, 5, 7]
~pieceDict[\sharedVar] = [0, 3, 4, 8]
~pieceDict[\sharedVar] = [0, 3, 5, 7]

p.pause

cheers,
eddi

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3

Yes, thanks! The problem here is that it is accesible from outside of the event/dict. Might not be a problem in most cases, but it’s not completely safe i guess.

4

I usually do something like this:

().make({
	~sharedVar = [0, 3, 5, 7];
	~part1 = Pbind(\degree, ~sharedVar);
	~part2 = Pbind(\degree, ~sharedVar)
});
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